Tennessee inmate Kevin Burns fights for freedom from death row



ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports on the story of Kevin Burns, a Tennessee inmate who has spent 28 years on death row for felony murder, a crime he says he did not commit, as he fights for clemency.

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24 comments

  1. Tennessee is a bad place. Police and DA are evil unjust lazy, and all bad things generally speaking

  2. At some point people need to let go and forgive in order to move on

  3. Kevin burns is full of crap. He got his justice of the death penalty!!

  4. There are several non-murderers on death row in the US. Jeff Wood, Juan Ramirez, Humberto Garza, Rodolfo Medrano and Jarvis Masters to name a few.

  5. It's very interesting that we did not hear the side of the prosecuting attorney and his evidence😮😮😮 on a story like this that's what usually happens isn't it😮😮?

  6. Sentencing people to death with no physical evidence should be illegal

  7. See if he is willing to take a paragraph test.

  8. What was details of his crime😊

  9. Death row proves America is a failed state. How many black men are falsely accused, or a rigged DA prosecutor. TOO MANY. America has a dispictable racist problem here and around the world. The big bad ass tough guy white supremacist syndrome. Human rights violationsgo on and on. Let this man go free and pay him for his time.

  10. If the deaths say forgive then let him go

  11. How in the hell he got the death penalty and the other guys got out already blows my damn mind!!

  12. THIS is so true. Big crimes get less time than little ones. The shooters are out . Makes no sense

  13. I pray that this man gets his day in court!!! 😔

  14. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

  15. The other 2 are out on parole, forgive

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  17. Fired the fatal bullet or not, he deliberately set upon the victims with his gang, committing armed robbery which led to the mvrders. He was an evil man who would still be out committing evil deeds if he wasn't stopped. I don't support the death penalty, but prison is exactly where that deceiver belongs and the media should be ashamed of their biased reporting.

  18. Yes. Tennessee is horrible. It's all political and about how many convictions the lawyers can get whether or not they are guilty

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  21. Voters are flawed and police are flawed prosecutors are flawed , judges are flawed and everyone else is flawed
    Both you and I are flawed and being mortal is a really great excuse

  22. Been flawed since not all states don't have the death penalty